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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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• perfĭdus, a, um, adj. [per-fides], that breaks his promise, faithless, false, dishonest, treacherous, perfidious.
  1. I. Lit. (class.; syn. infidus): vanum et perfidiosum esse, Cic. Quint. 6, 26: omnes, aliud agentes, aliud simulantes, perfidi, improbi, malitiosi sunt, id. Off. 3, 14, 60.—
          1. β. With gen. (poet.): gens perfida pacti, faithless, Sil. 1, 5.—
        1. b. Of inanim. and abstr. things (poet.): bella, Sil. 15, 819: nex, effected by treachery, Sen. Agam. 887: arma, Ov. F. 4, 380: verba, id. R. Am. 722.—
        2. c. Adverb.: perfidum ridens Venus (= maligne ac dolose), Hor. C. 3, 27, 67.—As subst.: perfĭdus, i, m., a scoundrel, Juv. 13, 245; 9, 82.—
  2. II. Transf., treacherous, unsafe, dangerous (poet. and in post-class. prose): freta, Sen. Med. 302: saxa, id. Agam. 570: perfidum glacie flumen, Flor. 3, 4, 5: perfida et lubrica via, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 49. vappa, wretched wine that has a good appearance, Mart. 12, 48, 14.—Sup.: homo, quoad vixerat, perfidissimus, Amm. 16, 12, 25.—Adv.: perfĭ-dē, faithlessly, perfidiously, treacherously (post-Aug.): perfide recuperans, Sen. Contr. 4, 26: rumpere pactum, Gell. 20, 1, 54: agere, Dig. 26, 7, 55: quod perfide gestum est, ib. 44, 4, 4, § 13.